'n Identifikasie en analise van enkele grondvoorwaardes in die Godsidee van Jürgen Moltmann

1998 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.v.D. Joubert
Keyword(s):  
Church Members ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Idea Of God

In recent years the controversy on the existence of God has made many theologians and church members restless. Old familiar ideas have been shattered, and many people are confused when they are confronted by such slogans as "God is dead" and "God cannot die". These quarrels have caused new theological tendencies that point towards a new doctrine on God. The purpose of this article is a reconnoitre and adjudication of some primary conditions, "unit-ideas", which determine Moltmann's idea of God.

scholarly journals Spiritualitas Menurut Yohanes Calvin dan Implikasinya bagi Pendidikan Warga Gereja di Era New Normal

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-115
Author(s):  
Agustina Pasang
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Field Data Collection ◽  
Correct Understanding ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract: One of the spiritualities that is important to learn and understand is spirituality according to John Calvin, which emphasizes the importance of the principle regarding the relationship between humans and God. Deeper recognition gives an indication that a person’s relationship with God is getting closer and closer to God, which will have an impact on spiritual growth. However, the spiritual understanding that is widely discussed today does not always originate from the existence of God but also from the potential of the human self. The purpose of this paper is to understand spirituality according to Calvin so that it can be a reference for the education of church members in the new normal era. This research uses a descriptive research method with a literature review approach and field data collection at the Indonesian Evangelical Mission Alliance Church in Balikpapan. Spirituality according to Calvin, if properly understood can help church members to have a correct understanding of knowing God and realizing the importance of spiritual growth and can find the strength to continue to grow in a stronger spiritual life that is expressed in the attitude of each individual’s life. Abstrak: Salah satu spiritualitas yang penting untuk dipelajari dan dipahami adalah spiritualitas menurut Yohanes Calvin, menegaskan pentingnya relasi antara manusia dengan Allah. Pengenalan yang semakin dalam memberi indikasi semakin erat dan intimnya relasi seseorang dengan Allah yang berdampak pada pertumbuhan spiritualitas. Namun pemahaman spiritual yang ramai dibicarakan saat ini tidak selalu bertolak dari keberadaan Allah tetapi juga dari potensi diri manusia. Tujuan dari penulisan ini adalah untuk memahami spiritualitas menurut Calvin, supaya dapat menjadi acuan bagi pendidikan warga gereja di era new normal. Adapun penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian deskriptif dengan pendekatan kajian literatur dan pengumpulan data lapangan di Gereja Persekutuan Misi Injili Indonesia (GPMII) Balikpapan. Spiritualitas menurut Calvin, jika dipahami secara benar dapat menolong warga gereja untuk memiliki pemahaman yang benar mengenai pengenalan akan Allah serta menyadari pentingnya pertumbuhan spiritualitas dan dapat menemukan kekuatan untuk terus bertumbuh dalam kehidupan spiritualitas yang lebih kokoh yang dinyatakan dalam sikap hidup tiap hari

Hobbes against Descartes

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Stewart Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Existence Of God ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Idea Of God

This chapter looks at Hobbes’s objections to Descartes’s Meditations, focusing on issues connected to materialism. It considers Hobbes’s argument that we have no idea of God, and his associated view that ideas are images which represent by resembling. In the Third Objections, Hobbes does not deny the existence of God, but he does deny that we have an idea of God, and thus undercuts Descartes’s arguments for God’s existence. He thinks we cannot prove the immateriality of the mind, and even suggests that the mind is purely material. The chapter also considers Hobbes’s claim that we have no idea of substance, asking where exactly Hobbes differs from Descartes on this issue.

scholarly journals The Relation between God and the World in the Pre-Critical Kant: Was Kant a Spinozist?

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noam Hoffer
Keyword(s):  
Actual World ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Critical System ◽  
The World ◽  
Idea Of God

AbstractAndrew Chignell and Omri Boehm have recently argued that Kant’s pre-Critical proof for the existence of God entails a Spinozistic conception of God and hence substance monism. The basis for this reading is the assumption common in the literature that God grounds possibilities by exemplifying them. In this article I take issue with this assumption and argue for an alternative Leibnizian reading, according to which possibilities are grounded in essences united in God’s mind (later also described as Platonic ideas intuited by God). I show that this view about the distinction between God’s cognition of essences as the ground of possibility and the actual world is not only explicitly stated by Kant, but is also consistent with his metaphysical picture of teleology in nature and causality during the pre-Critical period. Finally, I suggest that the distinction between the conceptual order of essences embodied in the idea of God and the order of the objects of experience plays a role in the transition into the Critical system, where it is transformed into the distinction between the intelligible and the sensible worlds.

scholarly journals Gagasan Allah Kristianitas dalam Modernisme, Postmodernisme, dan 'Illative Sense' John Henry Newman

MELINTAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Riston Situmorang
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
John Henry Newman ◽  
Religious Epistemology ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Experience Of God ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Idea Of God

Modern worldview tends to explore everything, including the idea of God, grounded on reason and rational evidences. Postmodernism on the other hand tends to consider that the basic of epistemology of modernism fails to explain the experience and the existence of God, because modernism relies too much on the cognitive and empiric powers. John Henry Newman might be viewed as a constructive postmodernist for he chooses a different power for judging the truth about the concept and experience of God. Newman appears not to think in ‘either-or’ way like in the rationalism and empiricism worldview, but attempts to fuse and bridge the ways of thinking using ‘both-and’. He suggests that this power, i.e., the <em>illative sense</em>, is a faculty that help the believers judge the truth in comprehending the existence of God. With illative sense, people may decide and make spontaneous inferences on concrete issues naturally. In this line, postmodernism might be seen not as a threat or enemy, but companion to religion, for the postmodern epistemology tends to be sensorial, intuitive, and experiential. Illative sense, as a power that each believer has, is converging the particularities towards the existence of God in the context of religious epistemology.

Can Theodicy be Avoided? The Claim of Unredeemed Evil

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Wetzel
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
The World ◽  
Idea Of God

Theodicy begins with the recognition that the world is not obviously under the care of a loving God with limitless power and wisdom. If it were, why would the world be burdened with its considerable amount and variety of evil? Theodicists are those who attempt to answer this question by suggesting a possible rationale for the appearance of evil in a theocentric universe. In the past theodicists have taken up the cause of theodicy in the service of piety, so that God might be defended against libel from humans, particularly the accusation that God's reign lacks justice. Contemporary practitioners, who live in a world where the existence of God can no longer be presumed, tend to favour theodicy as an exercise in securing the rationality of religious belief. Their hope is that one crucial theoretical obstacle to responsible belief in God will have been eliminated, once the idea of God has been reconciled with the reality of evil. What has commonly united theodicists, at least since the Enlightenment, is that they must answer to a non–believing antagonist. Until relatively recently, theodicy has been a debate between apologists for theistic faith and their cultured detractors.

scholarly journals El uso del argumento ontológico en la filosofía de Duns Scoto, Gottfried Leibniz y Gustavo Bueno / The Modal Ontological Argument in Duns Scoto, Gottfrieb Leibniz and Gustavo Bueno

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Íñigo ONGAY DE FELIPE
Keyword(s):  
Ontological Argument ◽  
John Duns Scotus ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Duns Scotus ◽  
Idea Of God

This article shows that the modal ontological argument as proposed by Gottrieb Leibniz was very much anticipated in its logical articulation by John Duns Scotus in his work De Primo Principio. To this end, the author analyzes some of the various versions of the argument present in the philosophical thought of authors such as Scotus, Leibniz, Malcom and Plattinga, and demonstrates that those versions are based on the hidden premise of the possibility of the idea of God. In this respect, the Spanish philosopher Gustavo Bueno defends what he calls an “inverted ontological argument” which, if viable, would prove not so much the non-existence of God but that the idea of God does not exist itself.

Atheism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L. Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Narrow Sense ◽  
The West ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
Idea Of God

Atheism is the position that affirms the nonexistence of God. It proposes positive disbelief rather than mere suspension of belief. Since many different gods have been objects of belief, one might be an atheist with respect to one god while believing in the existence of some other god. In the religions of the west – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – the dominant idea of God is of a purely spiritual, supernatural being who is the perfectly good, all-powerful, all-knowing creator of everything other than himself. As used in this entry, in the narrow sense of the term an atheist is anyone who disbelieves in the existence of this being, while in the broader sense an atheist is someone who denies the existence of any sort of divine reality. The justification of atheism in the narrow sense requires showing that the traditional arguments for the existence of God are inadequate as well as providing some positive reasons for thinking that there is no such being. Atheists have criticized the traditional arguments for belief and have tried to justify positive disbelief by arguing that the properties ascribed to this being are incoherent, and that the amount and severity of evils in the world make it quite likely that there is no such all-powerful, perfectly good being in control.

Natural Theology and the Concept of Perfection in Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-475
Author(s):  
Mark O. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Ontological Argument ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Analytic Work ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Idea Of God

One of the hallmarks of the early modern rationalists was their confidence that a great deal of metaphysics could be done by purely a priori reasoning. They thought so at least partly because they inherited via Descartes Anselm's confidence that the existence of God could be established by purely a priori reasoning in an ontological argument. They also inherited a Thomistic and scholastic confidence that the concept of God as supremely perfect being, if subjected to serious and deep analysis, would yield sound doctrine. Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz all three took it that they had in their stock of ideas an idea of God sufficiently clear and detailed that a little analytic work could produce real metaphysical results, not only about God himself, but also about the universe in which they found themselves (for Spinoza, these turned out to be the same thing). Though they start with what purport to be ideas of the same God, they get radically different results in their analyses.

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